Thermal Spraying: Thermal Spraying

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Thermal Spraying
Thermal spray is an established industrial process for the surfacing and resurfacing of metal components. Basically, this process involves the transmission of the deposition material through a heating zone where it is melted. These molten particles drive towards the substrate where it gets deposited to form a coating. There are various types of thermal spray processes like plasma spray process, the High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) process and Detonation-Gun spraying (D-Gun) amongst which atmospheric plasma spraying is the most widely used method by the biomedical industry. Plasma spraying is a process exploited by aerospace and Navy to develop wear resistant coatings. In this work, an attempt is made to develop a plasma sprayed …show more content…

Changing of constant powder properties involves a change in basic properties of the coating and also requires the corresponding variation of processing parameters. Changing of the variable properties, such as particle size, influences the heat transfer efficiency, the degree of melting of particles, average particle temperature and in-flight particle velocity in plasma jet while the component distribution (particularly for composite powder) and purity of powder affect the structure of the coating …show more content…

It can be used as a parameter for an overall characteristic of the working regimes since the conditions of heating of particle and substrate greatly depend on it (Matejka & Benko 1989). This factor decides to what extent are powder particles molten in the plasma jet before their deposition at the substrate. High plasma arc power represents a high thermal energy output of the plasma and a correspondingly large amount of heat for the injected feedstock powder. In this spraying system (Metco 4MB), the control of the arc voltage is realized by varying the plasma gas composition and volume. At a given arc current, increasing the gas volume increases the arc voltage and therefore increases the arc power. The most sensitive parameter affecting arc voltage is the gas composition, particularly the hydrogen content. The arc voltage increases greatly with increasing hydrogen content. The arc voltage decreases with increasing arc current (Anon

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